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title: So the clever wife had nothing on the wheel, right? — Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foo… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the clever wife had nothing on the wheel, right? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1247 «Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: the cat wins back his ball, a prince is freed, and two wives test their husbands» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma
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# Test 12 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: t…

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So the clever wife had nothing on the wheel, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** clever wife · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** nothing, wheel

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1247 «Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: the cat wins back his ball, a prince is freed, and two wives test their husbands» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1247-pg3282-part48/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t12:1
# text = So the clever wife had nothing on the wheel, right?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the clever wife | nothing |  | the wheel |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Just air

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t12:o1:1
# text = Just air
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Just empty thread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t12:o2:1
# text = Just empty thread
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Just invisible wool that nobody could ever see

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t12:o3:1
# text = Just invisible wool that nobody could ever see
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | could | nobody | invisible wool |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Just invisible wool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t12:o4:1
# text = Just invisible wool
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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